Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note xi
1 Every Inch a King 1
2 Meantime We Shall Express Our Darker Purpose 7
3 Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess 19
4 Now Thou Art an O Without a Figure 25
5 O Let Me Not Be Mad, Not Mad, Sweet Heaven! 31
6 Poor Tom! / That's Something Yet: Edgar I Nothing Am 35
7 O Heavens! / if Yourselves Are Old, / Make It Your Cause 49
8 This Cold Night Will Turn Us All to Fools and Madmen 57
9 He Childed as I Fathered. / Tom, Away 69
10 He That Will Think to Live Till He Be Old, / Give Me Some Help! 75
11 But That Thy Strange Mutations Make Us Hate Thee, / Life Would Not Yield to Age 83
12 Humanity Must Perforce Prey on Itself, / Like Monsters of the Deep 85
13 O Ruined Piece of Nature, This Great World / Shall So Wear Out to Naught 97
14 Thou Art a Soul in Bliss, But I Am Bound / Upon a Wheel of Fire 123
15 Men Must Endure / Their Going Hence Even as Their Coming Hither. / Ripeness Is All 129
16 The Gods Are Just and of Our Pleasant Vices / Make Instruments to Plague Us 135
17 We That Are Young / Shall Never See So Much, nor Live So Long 151